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!Danger! Will Robinson
Setup a logging daemon. Check. Setup crond. Check. Setup ssmtp. Check. Setup a log watching script. hmm… There are more than a few options as usual. logsurfer+ swatch logsentry
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Maintenance: package update
These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies . … done! [ebuild U ] sys-apps/man-pages-2.70 [2.69] USE=”nls” 1,814 kB [ebuild U ] dev-libs/libxml2-2.6.30-r1 [2.6.30] USE=”python readline -debug -doc -ipv6 -test” 0 kB [ebuild N ] app-admin/webapp-config-1.50.16-r1 102 kB [ebuild U ] sys-power/apcupsd-3.12.4 [3.10.18-r1] USE=”ncurses nls usb -cgi -doc -snmp -threads…
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cost of a server
Using the P3 Kill-a-Watt I got for Christmas, I know that the tower, SimpleTech NAS, monitor, printer, switch, and the UPS itself all drew a total of 1.43 KwH in 24 hours. So lets consider what it would cost to run this setup for a year. 1.43 KwH * 365 days = 521.95 KwH/year Electric…
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Maintenance: 8:00AM CST 1/10/2008
–sync failed last night because I didn’t change back to the correct settings. Though I was surprised it executed on Wednesday and not Thursday (45 5 * * 1,4). Isn’t 1,4 supposed to mean Monday and Thursday? My clock is set to UTC so 5:45AM is 11:45PM CST. ebrake@medusa ~ $ emerge -pvuDN world These…
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Weird Gmail behavior
I finally got ssmtp working after fixing the mistakes in my config. I discovered, however, that email gets lost in Google when sending to a gmail address using gmail’s servers. Email works if I use gmail servers to send to a different service or I can use different servers to send to a gmail address.…
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Slow Rsync Servers Need Love Too
Since getting my home server setup I’ve been struggling to increase the timeout during –sync. The server I’m using is a 400Mhz PII, 192MB of RAM tower that takes slightly longer to chew on a problem. At first I tried removing –compress and increasing –timeout in PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS but the results weren’t very satisfying. So I…
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2007 WD5 Odds, Now 1 in 28
Additional position observations for asteroid 2007 WD5 taken on December 29 through January 2 have been used to improve the accuracy of the asteroid’s orbit. As a result, the range of possible paths past Mars has narrowed by a factor of 3 and the most likely path has moved a little farther away from the…
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Maintenance: Tue 1/8/2008 8:00AM CST
ebrake@medusa ~ $ emerge -pvuDN world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies… done! [ebuild N ] dev-libs/libxml2-2.6.30 USE=”python readline -debug -doc -ipv6 -test” 4,616 kB [ebuild N ] dev-libs/libcroco-0.6.1 USE=”-debug” 373 kB [ebuild R ] sys-devel/gettext-0.17 USE=”acl%* nls openmp%* -doc -emacs -nocxx” 0 kB Total: 3 packages (2…